Technology

Employee #1: I always thought it was pronounced “fass-mile”. What is it?
Employee #2: Facsimile. It’s a fax.
Employee #1: Oh, I’ve never heard it called that before.

50 Oak Court
Danville, California

Office drone #1: Last week I was on MySpace, and I dropped my old high school girlfriend a line. Would you see this as being friendly or creepy?
Office drone #2: Well, did you search specifically for her?
Office drone #1: No, I seriously just happened across her through my high school’s page, but unbeknownst to me she had just recently set up her account. I’m just freaked out that it looks like I’ve been trolling the internet waters waiting for her to surface and then, bam! Ten years ago that would have been the case, but not now.

Liberty Drive
Bloomington, Indiana

Overheard by: giselle

Coworker to another while tweaking settings on their iPhones: Where's your colon?

Birmingham
England

Overheard by: Bex

Engineer #1: ASCII porn?
Engineer #2: Yeah, it’s sweet.

1 Federal Street
Camden, New Jersey

Worker #1: They were being mean to her on Facebook.
Worker #2: What’s Facebook?
Worker #3: Oh, it’s like MySpace.
Worker #2: MySpace… That’s like Wal-Mart for pedophiles.

2100 Lakeshore Drive
Birmingham, Alabama

Woman on phone: Did she eat the other remote? Well, then you need to call Verizon and get a new one!

Crystal City, Virginia

Sales rep #1: Here’s that spreadsheet. I hid the columns you didn’t need so it would fit on one page.
Sales rep #2: How did you do that? I have been cutting and pasting all this time!
Sales rep #1: Cutting and pasting?
Sales rep #2, pulling out three pieces of paper, cut and taped together to make one big spreadsheet: See? I cut and pasted!

Virginia

Overheard by: What!?

Queen: I tell you what you do. You put her computer inside a Krispy Kreme box, maybe then she’ll get some work done.

142 Greene Street
New York, NY

Technical support worker on phone: I am not a robot!

Auckland
New Zealand

Overheard by: RockJonny

Office hottie: I don’t know how easy it is to Photoshop arm fat into muscle.

Newtown Square, Pennsylvania

Overheard by: Boner Police